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[Andrew Thompson]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 09:03, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > ODBC, the latter having become "obsolete". I'd been wondering for awhile
> > whether we're going to be seeing an OLEDB equivalent in the open source
> > (read: Linux) arena, and what it's likely to mean if we don't.
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> That OLEDB equivalent is GDA/GNOME-db, which provides part of the
> subsystem for Mono as well.

This seems to match what I've been finding online, which ain't been
muchly helpful, I'll tell you! This clarifies things considerably,
thanks! I think full ADO.NET emulation would almost demand GDA or
something similar.

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Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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